This is an analysis of the poem Elegie Vom Rosenberg that begins with:

Ist nicht der Sommer schon lange vergangen?
Ist noch die Jungfrau des Mondes Regent?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXb XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXbXX XaXXX XXXXX XaXaX XXbXX XbXbX XXXXX XXXXX cbcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011100 1111011010 10011100 1011111 1111111110 10111101 111001011 111101001 1011010111 111001110 100001011 11101010 11111000 1111010 1011011011 1111111011 1011111 101101111 1110101 11111110 11110011110 101101001 1010010010 1011111 11110100 100011100 111000111 1000111100 111001000 11101100 111110 10111001 1111100 0110010 11111010 1010101 11111001 10101010 101011001 1110110 10101100010 110101101 001111010 111101111 11011111110 1010110100 11010100 0110101100 11101101 101111000 101010000 110101010 100111010 111011001 10000111110 11100110 1011101 1111111001 1101011 111011010 1010111 101101101 111111001 111101100 11111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; auf, und, die, der are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ist, und are repeated.

    The author used the same word aber at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Elegie Vom Rosenberg;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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